Slaughterhouse accused of selling meat from cows with cancer
Source: SF Chron
(02-25) 18:58 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Rancho Feeding Corp., the Petaluma slaughterhouse that recently recalled 8.7 million pounds of beef, is under criminal investigation by the federal government for killing and selling meat from dairy cows with cancer, according to sources who would only speak on the condition of anonymity.
Rancho was allegedly buying up cows with eye cancer, chopping off their heads so inspectors couldn't detect the disease and illegally selling the meat, the sources said.
Although it's against federal law, experts say eating the meat isn't likely to make people sick. So far, no one has reported becoming ill from eating the meat.
The criminal investigation hasn't just affected Rancho. Private cattle producers, who use the company for custom slaughtering, have also been swept up in the recall, leaving the shelves with a dearth of local, natural and high-end beef on the shelves.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Did-Petaluma-slaughterhouse-sell-meat-from-5267836.php
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Eye cancer? Did it just show up in the eyes, but was all over in the cows, this cancer? Was the meat tested for radiation, or how was the cancer discovered?
And is it safe to eat any dead cow again?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)the American food supply.
Glad to know that these fucks are willing to kill folks for a buck.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Will they get a $500 fine? Oooooo. Scary.
No accountability in the U.S.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... Prime Rib, T-bones, Sirloin Steaks. But I don't eat allot of beef anymore. We're all going to end up vegetarians one of these days. Veggies from our back yards. Move to the country and take up agriculture again? Back to agrarian days?
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Grew up on a farm where we raised thousands of beef cattle. Never, ever saw a cow with eye cancer. That is just shocking that there are that many cows with eye cancer that the slaughterhouse could buy enough to make a profit.
Kali
(55,032 posts)used to see it a lot in Herefords when I was young
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Treating pink eye is not that hard to do. And this place must have been aware, yet they just went ahead and allowed the dead cows to be ground up?
Just not making sense, is it?
8 track mind
(1,638 posts)but now i know why (after reading this) the Grandparents and my Parents inspected their cattle daily.These were all free range cattle. The worst thing i ever saw was "scours" (cows with diarrhea)
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)It is against the law to send them to slaughter once the eye is past a certain stage.
However, many slaughter houses may 'cheat' like this one does because it's very easy to hide this.
Can read in the article some very legit, great beef ranchers were caught-up in the recall and it hurt their business very much.
There should be criminal charges not only for the slaughterhouse who 'cheated'. The dairy who dumped those old cancer eye cows, Any auction who sold those old cows. Any driver/company who transported them to the slaughter location all those people should be charged with crimes.
And make restitution to the legit good ranchers who were harmed.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Makes one wonder how many times this 'slaughter house' hides horrible animal abuse.
And also lets unhealthy meat, slaughtered 'under the table', away from USDA eyes- be sold to consumers.
Our poor dairy cows a lifetime of providing milk, a calf each year. Then when to old, can't walk, blinded from eye infection-cancers- they have to suffer a totally unhumane slaughterhouse death. Just for non-premium cheap scrap-meat.
What does the 'dairy' get for these old, crippled suffering cows? they sell for about $20.00 at the low-class auctions.!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)Many of the people who read this story will still take the kids to McDonald's this Saturday.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)Isn't that right, boys and girls?